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High Performance Humanities

May 08, 2008 | The NEH and DOE have a vision to bring one million hours of high performance computing time to the humanities. The effort is being managed out of the NEH's new Office of Digital Humanities, created recently to recognize the increasing importance of computing in what has traditionally been a very old-fashioned area of research.
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Stuck on the Desktop

Apr 25, 2008 | If high performance computing is such an innovation accelerator, why don't more companies embrace the technology? The Council on Competitiveness has released two new studies that look at why technical computing users on desktop systems are not graduating to HPC servers.
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HPC Innovation in the Era of 'Good Enough'

Apr 25, 2008 | We are in an era of supercomputing where the hardware and software we have to deal with are 'good enough' as long as they stay cheap enough. The IT market has continued to shift, and the advent of multicore processors now threatens to put an end to differentiated solutions altogether. Whether its an end to "winner-take-all" procurements, death to onerous Terms and Conditions, or the infusion of new money into federal support for HPC R&D, something has got to give.
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Petascale Computing to Advance Climate Research

Apr 18, 2008 | From the birth of HPC, climate research has had a voracious appetite for computing resources. John Drake, chief computational scientist for the Climate End Station at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, explains what petascale computing will do to help feed this hunger and how the lab's work supports the mission of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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ESnet's Bill Johnston to Retire From LBNL

Apr 11, 2008 | In a few months, Bill Johnston of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will step down as head of ESnet, the DOE network that provides high bandwidth networking to tens of thousands of researchers around the world. In a career that began in the 1970s and has included seminal work in networking, distributed computing, the Grid, and even crossing paths with Al Gore, Johnston has had a hand in the development of many of the high performance computing and networking resources that are today taken for granted.
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NICS Unleashes 'Kraken' Supercomputer

Apr 04, 2008 | A Cray XT4 supercomputer, dubbed Kraken, is scheduled to come online in mid-summer at the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS). The soon-to-be petascale system, and the resulting NICS organization, are the result of an NSF Track II award of $65 million to the University of Tennessee and its partners to provide next-generation supercomputing for the nation's science community.
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Parallel Processing Calls for a Fortress Mentality

May 14, 2008 | InfoWorld | Sun Microsystems is taking the lessons learned from Java and applying them to the application development challenges of the high performance computing realm.
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Record-Setting Simulations on Ranger Reconstruct the Reionization Era

May 12, 2008 | Texas Advanced Computing Center | In the coming months, Dr. Michael L. Norman of UCSD will use Ranger, the world's most powerful supercomputer for open-science research, to perform the largest cosmological simulation to date.
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Berkeley Lab Researchers Propose a New Breed of Supercomputers

May 07, 2008 | Berkeley Lab Research News | Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have proposed an innovative way to improve global climate change predictions by using a supercomputer with low-power embedded microprocessors.
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Supercomputing a Cure

May 06, 2008 | Texas Advanced Computing Center | To develop an atomic scale understanding of biological membranes, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are using Lonestar, the HPC system at the Texas Advanced Computing Center.
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NCCS Support of Space Exploration

May 05, 2008 | CISTO News | The NASA Center for Computational Sciences is playing a vital role in the advancement of space weather modeling, which will help facilitate interplanetary travel like humankind's first trip to Mars.
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Purdue Supercomputer Unboxed and Built by Lunchtime

May 05, 2008 | Purdue University | Staff members at Purdue University had hoped to build the Big Ten's largest campus supercomputer in just a day. But it didn't take that long -- they were done by lunch.
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National Science Board Approves UCAR Proposal to Manage NCAR

May 15, 2008 | The National Science Board has authorized the NSF to negotiate a new cooperative agreement with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research to continue to manage and operate the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
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Jaguar Upgrade Brings ORNL Closer to Petascale Computing

May 15, 2008 | Upgrades to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer have more than doubled its performance, increasing the system's ability to deliver advances in scientific research.
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IBM World Community Grid "Supercomputer" to Tackle Rice Crisis

May 15, 2008 | As concerns of a global hunger crises mount, IBM and researchers at the University of Washington today launched a new program to develop stronger strains of rice that could produce crops with larger and more nutritious yields.
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New GLIF Map Now Available

May 13, 2008 | GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility, has announced the availability of a new world map that showcases its advanced research and education multi-gigabit optical network infrastructure.
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Florida HPC Center Selects RAID Inc. Storage

May 13, 2008 | The University of Florida's High-Performance Computing Center has chosen RAID Inc. for a large implementation of over 100 TB of performance-intensive 4Gb Fibre to SATA-2 storage.
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IBM-Designed Supercomputer to Enhance UCF's Simulation Research

May 13, 2008 | A new high-performance computer obtained through two Army grants totaling $2.6 million will allow the University of Central Florida to conduct realistic training scenarios with thousands of people training in the same virtual world and to conduct cutting-edge research in the physical and biological sciences.
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The New Science of Visual Analytics

When Jim Thomas set out to find new ways to deal with the mountains of information our society generates, he didn't just create a new organization, he created a new science. In this article we'll take a look at how the National Visualization and Analytics Center is transforming the problem of finding needles in haystacks into an opportunity for a more secure future.
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The Week in Review

ORNL Jaguar doubles its performance; the SC08 Cluster Challenge is gearing up; the University of Central Florida uses Army dollars to purchase an IBM super; and IBM's RoadRunner prepares to break the petaflop barrier. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
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Revaluating FPGAs for 64-bit Floating-Point Calculations

We now have generally available 2.5 GHz quad-core Opterons and Virtex-5 LX330, SX95T and recently announced SX240T FPGAs. In addition to this, Xilinx is releasing a new version of their floating-point cores that reduces the amount of logic and DSP slices needed for building floating-point function units. Taken together it is time to revisit Opteron floating-point performance versus FPGA performance.
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Parallel Processing Calls for a Fortress Mentality

May 14 | InfoWorld | Sun Microsystems is taking the lessons learned from Java and applying them to the application development challenges of the high performance computing realm. Read more...

IBM Set to Test the Fastest Computer in the World

May 14 | Computerworld | IBM is assembling the final pieces of what they hope will soon become the world's most powerful supercomputer. Read more...

IBM Shifts Cell to 65 Nanometers

May 13 | EETimes | IBM Corp. has announced the next-generation version of its Cell processor, the first specifically geared for computer servers. Read more...

Record-Setting Simulations on Ranger Reconstruct the Reionization Era

May 12 | Texas Advanced Computing Center | In the coming months, Dr. Michael L. Norman of UCSD will use Ranger, the world's most powerful supercomputer for open-science research, to perform the largest cosmological simulation to date. Read more...

2 AMD Executives Out in Restructuring Amid Slump

May 12 | BusinessWeek | Two executives have left AMD, including the head of the slumping chip maker's microprocessor division, as the company tries to engineer a dramatic turnaround to fend off larger rival Intel Corp. Read more...

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Podcast: Interview with Ben Bennett of ClearSpeed Technology

Today, HPC organizations are requiring substantially more floating point performance to solve real-world problems. In this podcast, Ben Bennett, ClearSpeed General Manager, discusses how acceleration technology can improve the overall performance of standard x86-based systems...